The clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1883-1888, 1887-11-09
THE STATE.

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: Bill Arp lectured at Meridian last Mon
! day night
II The Hospital at vicksburg contains los
patients
Natchez viii surely have free mail de-
livery, January LIST.
Diphtheria continues to rage in the
neighborhood of Holder.
Deer and turkeys are numerous in the
sEamps of Lefiore county.
The public roads leading into Aberdeen
are keptiin wretched condition
The Macon Sun is opposed TO indiscrimi-
nate jockey racing at the county fairs
/ Miss Mary A. Gatlin has been appointed
Postmistress at Sandersville, Miss.
The aDuck Season has opened up at
Natehez, and the huntsmen are happy.
Mrs. Pinkey Millsaps, wife of Mr.. w. f.
MiIlsaps, of Bowertown, died last week
Mr. J. A. Weatherford and Miss Martha
Leitch were married at Canton on Thurs
day last
The Crystal Springs Volunteers gave an
oyster supper last night at their spacious
Armory.
DIR. Jenkins, Assistant Coroner of the
city of New York. Is a Mississippi boy
from Oxford
Bernard McCabe, son of Mr.. Ed McCabe,
| of Natchez, died in Birmingham, Ala,
few days ago.
A late Baptist revival in Water Valley
resulted in over 10 conversions and about
35 accessions to the church.
| In the election for aldermen at Coffee
| vile on Monday last, the Anti Prohibs were
elected by q majority of sixteen.
| Thos. II. Hampton, an esteemed citizen
of Kemper, died at his home in Dekalb on
Saturday last from stroke of paralysis.
We regret to learn that O. H. McGinty,
Esq, the faithful and popular Chancery
| Clerk of Jefferson county, is seriously i'll.
Mrs. j. A. Andrews, very recently of
| Oxford, died last week at Fort Smith, Ark.
| She leaves a husband and three little
children.
Grenada narrowly escaped a devastating
| fire, last week, but happily the fire was put
under control before serious damage had
| been done.
| novel entertainment was given at the
| Natchez Casino last week, consisting of
and bicycles.
| Mr.. 4. S. Scales, of Iowa, has purchased
large tract of land in Pike county with
| view to going into stock farming on an
extensive scale.
I. C. Hardie, ex-Captain of the Crystal
| Springs Volunteers, was publicly caned at
the Armory last night. The cane was
| gold-headed one.
Master Steadman A. Stands, of Sena-
| tobia, died Thursday, Oct. 9th, 1887 at 3
| p, m, and was buried in Bethesda Cemetery
| at IL a. m, 2Sth.
Mr.. j. A. Martin, Jr., young merchant
of Hardy Station, shot and killed negro
named John Booker, last week. 1t was
done in self-defense.
Out of regard for Ben Ayers, the well
known and popular drummer of Grenada,
his drummer friends lifted a mortgage
from his sisters home.
Hon. FL. L. Muldrow is home from
Washington, taking much needed rest.
His family will accompany him when he
| returns to Washington.
Some miscreant has recently been exer-
cising his evil propensities by breaking the
| windows in the Catholic church in Port
| Gibson. The building had just been re-
paired.
The initial. number of 'EThe Mississippi
Teacher" published at Meridian, lis very
attractive. 1t ought to be literally sus-
| tanned. Such a publication was greatly
needed.
The last issue of the Aberdeen Weekly
seemed to be lecturing things in general.
the Electric Light Company all come in
for their share of the scolding.
Painters who have been touching up the
church, Natchez, found large quantity of
honey in the steeple on Saturday last-a
sweet reward for their labor.
The Signal Copiahan has come out in a
very becoming new winter dress. 1t is now
an eight page paper and continues to be
one of the most readable exchanges that
comes to the ''News" department.
Col. G, E. Hooker and Hon. j. P. Walker
were among the speakers chosen to ad-
dress the Convention of the American
Shipping and Industrial League, that was
to assemble in Birmingham yesterday.
We are pleased to learn that Mrs. San
derson, of Central Mississippi Institute,
French Camp, who has been quite seriously
i'll for several weeks, is improving, and
will soon be able to resume her duties.
The enterprising citizens of Bolton and
vicinity have organized ''stock show" to
include all domestic ADMINISTRATION
and members of committees to be furnished
dinner Free The first exhibition took
place on Saturday last.
The steamer Home, on her way from
White river to Memphis, burned last
Wednesday to the waters edge. She had
about 400 bales of cotton and lot of
cotton seed on board, which is total loss.
| The officers and crew were all saved.
The residence of Rev. Sam'I Stone, at
Terry, was entirely destroyed by fire on
the ID inst, at 10 o'clock. His furniture,
clothing, books, ETC., were saved. Mr..
Stone was recently from St. Joseph, Mich,
and was extensively engaged in fruit and
vegetable culture.
In the death of Rawley Sivley, Esq,
near Raymond, on Wednesday morning
last Kinds county has lost one of its oldest
and most respected citizens. He was a
inative of Alabama, and in his eightieth
| year. He has been citizen of Kinds for
nearly half century.
The gin house of DIR. c. d. Hutchinson,
near the line of Lowndes and Monroe
counties, with fifty-ive bales of cotton,
was destroyed by fire last week. The fire
was the work of an incendiary, and there
was no insurance on either building or con-
tents.
The Aberdeen papers are making con-
: siderable complaint about the manner in
} which their city is treated by the Electric
Light Company. They pay one hundred
) and sixty dollars per month for eight
lights, and of late they have been very I'M
| satisfactory.
The City Street Railroad, of Vicksburg,
will commence through business on Satur-
: day, after a suspension of two months
caused by suit with the city to settle the
question as to who shall keep up the gravel
streets through which it runs. The matter
has been left to arbitration
Mrs. Helen Williams, the wife of Mr.
John F. Williams, Jr., who lives neal
Sauleans, about ten miles from Meridian
was found by her father-in-law, one morn
ing last week, suspended by a rope in al
: old unused we'll in the yard. Melanchol,
is supposed to have caused her to commi
suicide.
To show what white labor can do in thu
hills of Yazoo county when it has mine
t to, we instance Mr.. Thomas Knott, VIII,
with his family, rented and worked thirt,